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Breaker bar. A breaker bar (also known as a power bar) is a long non-ratcheting bar that is used with socket wrench-style sockets.They are used to break loose very tight fasteners because their additional length allows the same amount of force to generate significantly more torque than a standard length socket wrench.
In Point Lobos, the use of tools to open mussels is very common. This behavior is distinctly less common in northern areas like the Commander Islands and Kuril Islands. There, adult otters only use tools if they are unable to open food items after trying first with their teeth. [2] Alaskan otters do not use tools as often as Californian otters ...
A set of metric spanners or wrenches, open at one end and box/ring at the other. These are commonly known as “combination” spanners. A wrench or spanner is a tool used to provide grip and mechanical advantage in applying torque to turn objects—usually rotary fasteners, such as nuts and bolts—or keep them from turning.
As with the chimpanzees, orangutans use tools made from branches and leaves to scratch, scrape, wipe, sponge, swat, fan, hook, probe, scoop, pry, chisel, hammer, cover, cushion and amplify. They will break off a tree branch that is about 30 cm long, snap off the twigs, fray one end and then use the stick to dig in tree holes for termites.
The point can be used to break glass on a car or building for access or ventilation. [14] It can also be driven into a roof to provide a foothold for firefighters engaged in vertical ventilation. The fork end is routinely used to shut off gas meter valves. The Halligan can be used as a step to get up on a window that is at head level. [15]
Oct. 13—A 29-year-old man was arrested last week after his younger brother accused him of striking him in the forehead with a wrench-style tool. According to an Ector County Sheriff's Department ...
Most chain tools are designed for chains where the links have flat plates. For chains with complicated shaped plates designed to facilitate smooth shifting, specific chain tools are available which are identical in design and operation, but have the ears protruding into the chain shaped in cross section to fit the links of the particular chain in question precisely, so as to hold the pin in ...
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